STC UUX Community Newsletter
Usability Interface

From The Manager

By Mary Deaton, UUX Manager

Awards for Former Manager

Trumpets, please! Karen Bachmann, Manager of Usability and User Experience for six years, has been awarded the 2008 Distinguished SIG Service Award! Your officers nominated Karen because we were all indebted to her for growing this community into a vibrant, effective place to discuss, learn about, and celebrate the practice of user experience.

At the SIG luncheon at the 2009 STC Summit, Karen will receive a plaque to commemorate this singular achievement. Please plan to join us and give Karen your applause and gratitude. And to go along with this high honor, Karen has also been named an Associate Fellow of STC and will be honored at the conference banquet!

Here come the Web Seminars!

Beginning March 19, UUX will begin holding Web seminars on usability and user experience topics, particularly as they relate to technical communications. The first topic is on planning for a documentation usability evaluation project. Mary Deaton, moi, is presenting this overview of the process for deciding what to test and how to test it. Future seminar topics are up to you.

To make your suggestions for topics and speakers, please fill out this survey and Web seminar coordinator Eric Hughes will use your ideas to plan future seminars. All seminars will be recorded and then made available later for those who cannot attend the live seminar.

Conference planning in full swing

David Dick, assistant UUX manager, is busy filling out request forms and menus and attending to the many details that must be seen to in order to have a great STC conference presence for UUX. In addition to the SIG networking luncheon on Monday, May 4, (be sure to sign up for the lunch when you register for the conference), we will hold a SIG business meeting at a date to be announced.

UUX will have a table at the welcome reception Monday evening. I will be at the table all evening and would love to meet each and every one of you who attend. If you would like to help greet people at our table, let me know and I will sign you up!

Usability Divas and Dudes!

In what can only be described as an historic event, every single person who has ever been manager of UUX will be hosting a table at the UUX Progression, Effective Ways of Usability Testing Documentation.

The illustrious line-up includes:

• Mary Deaton
• Karen Bachmann
• Whitney Quesenbery
• Ginny Redish
• Chauncey Wilson
• Caroline Jarrett
• Tom Johnson
• Cheryl St. Charles

We'll give you more details on UUX at the conference as time goes by. Check the conference Web site regularly for updates.